Abstract: A method for making custom printed notes or note pads. One or more sheet assemblies are provided which have first and second sheets and a pattern of pressure-sensitive adhesive on the rear major surface of each of the sheets that contacts and is releasably adhered to the rear major surface of the other sheet only in nonadhesive areas. Indicia is printed on the front major surfaces of the sheets using a conventional copy machine. The sheets can either be cut along predetermined lines to form the custom printed notes, or the sheets of a plurality of such printed sheet assemblies can be separated, stacked to adhere the patterns of pressure-sensitive adhesive on the rear major surfaces of the sheets to the front major surfaces of the sheets with the edges of the sheets in a predetermined orientation with respect to each other, and the stacked sheets can be cut along predetermined lines to form custom printed note pads.

Abstract: A sheet of loop material adapted to be cut into pieces to form loop portions for fasteners of the type comprising releasably engageable hook and loop portions, or to be incorporated into items such as disposable garments or diapers or into sheets of abrasives. The sheet of loop material includes a sheet of longitudinally oriented fibers having anchor portions and arcuate portions projecting in one direction away from the anchor portions, and a layer of thermoplastic backing material extruded onto the anchor portions to bond to the anchor portions and form at least a portion of a backing for the loop material. The thermoplastic backing material can also bond the sheet of fibers to a sheet of backing material.

Abstract: A sheet of loop material adapted to be cut into pieces to form loop portions for fasteners of the type comprising releasably engageable hook and loop portions, or to be incorporated into items such as disposable garments or diapers or into sheets of abrasives. The sheet of loop material includes a sheet of longitudinally oriented fibers having anchor portions and arcuate portions projecting in one direction away from the anchor portions, and a layer of thermoplastic backing material extruded onto the anchor portions to bond to the anchor portions and form at least a portion of a backing for the loop material. The thermoplastic backing material can also bond the sheet of fibers to a sheet of backing material.

Abstract: Fly lines become dirty in use and need to be cleaned periodically. A fly line can retain good shootability for a longer period of time when cleaned by a flexible, pliable abrasive article bearing abrasive granules having diameters substantially within the range of 5 to 30 .mu.m. Microscopic examination shows that the cleaning leaves longitudinal striations along the surface of the line. The abrasive article can have a backing of a nonwoven mat of fibers bearing of composite of the abrasive granules in a binder. The uncoated face of the backing can be laminated to a spongelike substrate such as an open-cell polymeric foam by which a lubricant can be applied to a freshly cleaned fly line.

Abstract: A liquid chemical measuring system including an elongate translucent or transparent polymeric tank having an upper portion with graduations indicating the amount of liquid required to fill the tank to each of the graduations when said tank is vertically disposed, and a generally funnel shaped portion adjacent its lower end. The tank has a liquid passage opening through its lower end, and an air passage through a transverse wall at its upper end. A frame supports the tank with its upper end uppermost, a liquid valve is attached to the tank across its liquid passage opening, and an air pump is coupled to the air passage opening of the tank by a valve operated by a single lever so that it can alternatively cause vacuum or pressure in the tank, thereby allowing liquid to be drawn into the tank to measure it using the graduations and then to be forced out of the tank.

Abstract: A mushroom-type hook strip for a hook-and-loop fastener has a flexible backing of thermoplastic resin and, integral with backing, an array of upstanding stems distributed across at least one face of the backing, each having a mushroom head. The stems have a molecular orientation as evidenced by a birefringence value of at least 0.001. The mushroom-type hook strip can be produced continuously by injecting resin into cavities of a cylindrical mold while evacuating and cooling the cavities so that the cooled resin becomes molecularly oriented, thus affording to the stems excellent stiffness, durability, and tensile and flexural strength.

Abstract: An application member for applying a coating material, such as a pressure sensitive adhesive, to a receiving surface, such as a paper substrate. The application member includes a cylindrical peripheral surface and a plurality of spaced, discrete structures projecting from the peripheral surface of the hub, whereby adhesive may be carried on and between the structures prior to being applied to the receiving surface. By varying the surface velocity of the application member relative to the velocity of the substrate, the characteristics of the adhesive layer applied to the substrate may be changed. Also provided is a process for making the application member by retaining individual particles within substantially all of a plurality of indentations in the peripheral surface of a hub.

Abstract: A quick-mounting fastening assembly including a fastening structure having an initial attachment surface, and a main attachment surface that is approximately co-planar with the initial attachment surface. A layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive over the initial attachment surface affords adhering the fastening structure to a substrate by pressing the layer of pressure sensitive adhesive against the substrate. A layer of hot-melt adhesive covering the main attachment surface can then be heated by friction in one of several ways to melt the layer of hot-melt adhesive so that upon cooling the layer of hot melt adhesive will be adhered to the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A footrest to be supported on a floor for which the height of the footrest from the floor and the angle of a foot support surface on the footrest with respect to the floor are independently adjustable. Projections on one portion of the footrest are movable in slots in another between spaced retaining portions in which the projections are frictionally retained to change the height of the footrest; and a platform defining the foot support surface is pivotable against the restraint of a friction clutch to change its angle with respect to the floor.

Abstract: A sheet composite adapted to be printed in printers of the type commonly used with personal or other types of computers including lasers printers, ink jet printers and impact printers. The sheet composite comprises (1) a primary sheet portion having opposite first and second major surfaces of a size adapted to be received by the printers and having first and second opposite edges; (2) a secondary sheet portion having first and second opposite major surfaces and having first and second opposite edges, which secondary sheet portion has a width between its first and second edges that is no more than half the width of the primary sheet portion between its first and second opposite edges; and (3) a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive that is firmly adhered on the first surface of one of the sheet portions along its first edge.

Abstract: A dispensing assembly adapted to be mounted on a backboard that may be supported on an easel or other support structure. The dispensing assembly includes a cylindrical core; a length of sheet material in a roll coaxially around the core; and a molded plastic enclosure including an elongate front portion defining an elongate chamber having an open side, and a rear portion adapted to be mounted on a backboard. The front and rear portions include journal surface portions at their ends that journal projecting end portions of the core with the roll in the chamber, which journal surface portions are separated when the front and rear portions of the closure are separated. Edges of the portions are spaced to define an elongate opening through which lengths of sheet material can be pulled from the roll, and the sheet can be cut against a sharp edge at the opening on the front portion of the enclosure.

Abstract: A pneumatic applicator for shear thinning viscous coating materials that includes a nozzle having a through material opening, and a distal end surface at an outlet end of the nozzle, an air operated system for dispensing viscous material at a steady rate through the nozzle, and an air directing housing defining, with the outer surface of the nozzle, an air chamber around the nozzle. The air directing housing includes a front end having a distal surface and defines an air outlet opening for the air chamber from an inner surface to the distal surface of the air directing housing.

Abstract: A thin dispenser package including a housing having a peripheral edge portion with through openings that can be mounted in a ring binder or a hook like projection that can be engaged in pocket folders, portfolios or the like. The dispenser package includes a stack of flexible sheets adhered together by layers of pressure sensitive adhesive with first and second ends of successive sheets in the stack adjacent; and the enclosure in which the stack of sheets is positioned that has a slotted top wall. The first end portion of the uppermost sheet on the stack projects through the slot. As that uppermost sheet is pulled through the slot, the first end portion of the first underlying sheet moves through the slot with the second end portion of the uppermost sheet to leave, after the uppermost sheet is fully peeled from the first portion of the first underlying sheet, the first end portion of the first underlying sheet in a position projecting through the slot.

Abstract: A frame assembly for use on a device such a computer monitor having a front viewed surface surrounded by a housing. The frame assembly includes a stiff frame having generally planar front and rear surfaces that includes elongate border portions having inner edge surfaces that define an opening through the frame corresponding in shape to the front viewed surface. The rear surface of the frame can be attached along the front surface of the housing with the opening in the frame aligned with the front viewed surface, and a layer of repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive adhered to the frame is accessible along the front surface of the frame so that sheets of paper and other objects can be releasably adhered thereto. The frame assembly can be supplied as a part of a composite that can provide other separable smaller bulletin boards or frames that also can have pressure sensitive adhesive accessible along their front surfaces.

Abstract: A wrist rest assembly for use along the front edge of a device to be operated by a person's hands or fingers, such as in front of a computer keyboard, including an elongate base assembly on which is supported an elongate pad. The base assembly has a top portion supporting the pad, a bottom portion adapted to be supported on a horizontal surface and structure that allows the top portion to be supported on the bottom portion with the top surface of the pad at two different distances above that horizontal surface by switching ends of the top portion with respect to the ends of the bottom portion.

Abstract: A polymeric spray shield assembly adapted to be connected to a support frame moved over plants growing in spaced rows from the earth and to be moved along the earth between the rows of plants while liquids such as herbicides not intended for contact with the plants in the rows are sprayed onto weeds between the rows of plants. The spray shield assembly comprises a polymeric spray shield having an inner surface defining a channel opening through an open side and front and rear ends of the spray shield, a top wall portion being adapted to have means attached thereto for suspending the spray shield from the support frame and through openings adapted to receive connector assemblies through which liquids are sprayed into the spray shield, and dependent opposite side wall portions. Stiff polymeric slotted end closure sheets are attached across the open front and rear ends of said channel to help retain the spray.

Abstract: Described is a dispenser for sheets received in a cavity in the dispenser that are pulled through an outlet opening in a top wall of the dispenser. The dispenser has access openings that afford inspection of the number of sheets remaining in the dispenser and facilitate engagement of a persons finger with the end portion of one of the sheets that projects through the outlet opening; a cover for the top wall when the dispenser is not in use; and separable portions that allow sheets to be positioned in the cavity. The dispenser can be included in an assembly further including a support member along which the dispenser is releasably attached, which support member can support one or more such dispensers together with dispensers for other items such as tape flags.